I can hear it now. The minute I die suddenly the Suck Ups in Harper will want to claim Rosalea's Hotel as "their project."

I could have thrown up the other night at City Council meeting when all of a sudden the conversation at the table turned to how terrible downtown Harper looks, and it just is in dire need of restoration, blah, blah.....now the main words came from a council member who was aboslutely hell bent on demolishing Balmer Fund 1885 Buckeye building three years ago. Her hyporcrisy exudes with her churchy long skirts and devious ways. (I left real estate because I could not deal with the likes of her.) So she decided to get involved in the Main Street program because our town looks so terrible, and asked the city for money to train four people about how to save our downtown. HUH? I don't get it. Where has she been hiding since 1968 when I have been working as a volunteer to save downtown and have been knocked down time and time again, costing us thousands of dollars trying to placate the council, only to have an hisotric building demolished anyway--and the mayor and city clerk/FAUX manager danced and laughed in the streets as the city confiscated our trailer we were not allowed to remove. (The last time it was put to use was for the Free Store I took to Pratt for the Greensburg tornado victims...,the story was on Woman's Day website.)

I have been a volunteer editor for the Prairie Connection since 1994 and have documented time and time again the adversity I've endured by these Harper County Suck Ups. The Mayor would not recognize me until someone from the floor told her to.....and I explained that 15 years ago I showed the Main Street literature to the then-mayor who walked over and threw it in the trash. And that I recently attended a Main Street workshop and would present what I learned to the NEW council after the election in April. But never mind, I was totally ignored and the fool council of More Suck Ups gave her tax payers hard earned money.

I was wired and hot.......I told them that there was not one person in the room (it was a large crowd due to a previous session) who had ever given even one dollar in support of the Balmer Fund. (Mission: to preserve the history art and culture of the prairies for future generations.) I reminded them that in all these years they have never attended a Balmer Fund fundraising, and that all of our money has come from people on the outside. ( One anonymous outside donor gave almost half a million dollars over a decade before he threw up his hands and quit, and said he had never seen anything as corrupt as Harper County.)

And now suddenly this Mrs. Suck Up decides, as if it is a new thought, that we have a derelict downtown and need the help of the sweet naive girls who put in those gol darn ugly black cold wrought iron park benches (they don't know what Feng Shui is) that no one sits on as people do not talk to each other in Harper County except in cliques at the Lodge, Church, Bar or Club.

I have a loud "farm raised voice" and this enrages them as they don't know what else to pin on me so I quickly said I was getting loud and did not want to be arrested and was going home. I walked out. They gave Mrs. Suck Up the money of course as they are all Little Sucki Ups too. (It is odd to me that one of the council members has a father with a notorious loud voice, much louder than mine, and he never has threats of arrest for his loud raspy voice or told to shut up.)

As an outsider (and goodness know if you grew up here you are probably emotionally and visually stunted just like the current locals and won't give a dime either) you have the opportunity with the Donate button to help preserve Rosalea's Hotel 1968 (Patterson House 1883), the icon of the prairies, the one thing that has put Harper County on the map and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and featured in PEOPLE.

Thank you for being Intelligent and Visionary. How about becoming a New Prairie Pioneer?!
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